Zero sat on the futon without saying a word, quietly looking at the two dwarven elders sitting in front of him.

Gu Ang and Kusai sat across from Zero, and the two sat on either side of the coffee table, staring intently at Zero's face. Zero coughed lightly in embarrassment, and he looked away at the dwarven patriarch's house.

The house looked larger than a normal dwarven house, and the interior was very simple, with some animal skins hanging on the walls, and a very simple long knife on the knife stand in the corner...... The sun shone through the window on the wooden floor between Zero and the two old men, and from time to time there were a few low roars of bears outside the window.

The patriarch of the dwarf clan had raised a 6th-order Karabay bear in the courtyard, and when Zero came here, it was lying lazily in the courtyard basking in the sun, and its huge body and brown fur with black stripes looked very clumsy. It saw that Zero only let out two breaths from its nose, but when Archie who brought him here greeted it, it let out a low growl, and Zero waved at it but it was not interested.

"Your name is Zero?" Gu Ang suddenly asked Xiang Zero.

Zero Wenyan turned his face and sat up straight, nodded and replied, "Yes." ”

"How old are you?" Gu Ang continued to ask with a smile.

"Fifteen years old. Zero answered truthfully.

"Do you have any relatives at home?" asked Gu Ang.

"No, I'm an orphan. Zero replied.

"Are you used to living here?" Gu Ang asked again.

"Are you going to arrange a blind date for this kid?" asked Kusai impatiently to Gu Ang.

Zero smiled awkwardly, he looked at the kind and kind dwarven patriarch and asked, "Grandpa Patriarch, is there something wrong with you calling me over?"

Gu Ang narrowed his eyes and smiled slowly twice and said to him: "It's nothing important, I just want to chat with you, I heard from the people in the village, you saved a group of children in the village two days ago, everyone is very grateful to you, it just so happens that you have been in the village for a while, I haven't seen you yet, I just called you to come over to meet today." ”

Zero nodded in understanding, and then he sat down on the futon and fell silent. Kusai glanced at Gu Ang, and after Gu Ang took a sip of tea from his teacup, he asked Xiang Zero unhurriedly: "Zero, what do you think of our dwarf clan?"

"Oh...... It's good......" Zero was stunned for a moment and replied, "The people are simple, the villagers are enthusiastic and kind, everyone lives in harmony in the same village, which is very good, much more comfortable than those large capitals outside the forest." ”

Gu Ang smiled and narrowed his eyes, he looked at Zero and asked, "Then do you want to stay here?"

Zero looked at Gu Ang, and then at Kusai with a serious face next to him, and then he said seriously: "Actually, I won't interrupt my stay here, I'm grateful to the dwarves for saving me from my serious injuries, and now that my body has healed, it's time to leave here." You don't have to worry that I will leak out the dwarven seclusion, you can find someone to blindfold me and send me out of here, and then I can go alone, and I will not interfere with your normal life. ”

After listening to Zero's words, Gu Ang glanced at Kuse next to him with a smile, he put down the teacup in his hand and looked at Zero and said, "We don't mean to evict customers, if you want, you can stay here all the time." Don't get me wrong, we called you here just to have a chat with you, we haven't had outsiders in our dwarf village for decades. ”

Zero nodded and didn't speak again, Gu Ang looked at Zero's face for a while, and then he asked Xiang Zero, "Can I ask you some questions?"

After seeing Zero's nod, Gu Ang opened his mouth and asked, "Eight years ago, where were you and what were you doing?"

"Eight years ago?" Zero asked confusedly. He didn't understand why the dwarven patriarch asked this, and it was eight years ago at this point in time, could it be that eight years ago was a special year?

"I don't remember exactly," replied Zero after a moment's thought, "I was a young man eight years ago, and I was wandering around...... Why do you ask?"

After hearing Zero's answer, Gu Ang glanced at Couse, then smiled and said to Zero, "It's nothing, just a casual question."

"Oooh......" Zero nodded, gave a strange look at Gu Ang and Kusse, and said nothing.

After a while, Gu Ang opened his mouth and said to Zero: "Okay, it's nothing, you go back and talk another day." ”

Zero Wenyan stood up, bowed to Gu Ang and Kusai, and then turned to leave.

"Wait......"

Just as Zero walked to the door and was about to reach out to open it, Kuse, who had been silent, suddenly spoke.

"Do you still want to learn enchantment?" asked Kusse in a stern voice.

Zero's eyes lit up when he heard his words, and he looked at Cousse and said, "Yes, of course I want to!"

Kusai said to Zero without changing his face, "Starting tomorrow, you and Archie will go to the Sword Hall together." ”

"Would you like to teach me, thank you so much!" Zero smiled and bowed deeply to Kusse, "Then I'll be in the village for a while, thank you!"

With that, Zero smiled and walked out of the room and closed the door.

Kusse turned his face to look at Gu Ang, who spread his hands and did not speak.

Walking in the yard in a good mood, he looked at the Karabe bear lying on the ground basking in the sun, clapped his hands at him with a smile and said, "Yo! Big sloth bear, can you say hello to me?"

The Karabe bear lay motionless on the ground and looked at Zero, exhaling two heavy breaths between his noses, as if expressing his disdain for Zero.

Zero was not the slightest bit unhappy by the indifference of the Karabe bear, and he walked out of the yard with a step on tiptoe and a smile on his face.

"Huh?" Zero suddenly sensed that something was wrong with the conversation just now, and he stood still outside the courtyard, looking back at the patriarch's house and falling into deep thought.

"Eight years ago...... Eight years ago!" Zero suddenly remembered something.

Eight years ago was the time when he had just woken up in this world!Why did the dwarven patriarch ask about this special time for Zero eight years ago?

Zero frowned deeply, feeling in his heart that this conversation was not so simple, and the two old men of the dwarf clan must have something to say to him clearly. He pursed his lips and stood there silent.

After a while, Zero turned his face and walked away step by step along the side of the road.

In the evening, the Zero and Iwatai family had just finished dinner. After Zero finished washing, he walked outside the door with a footbath, and happened to see Iwatai standing by the fence not far away chatting with his father Taru.

After Zero poured the footwashing water, he looked up and heard Iwatai calling him, he put the footbath on the stone steps at the door, and walked over kicking the wooden slippers.

Yan Tai raised his hand and patted Zero's shoulder as he walked to him, and then introduced him and said, "This is my father Taru, who started forging his next weapon when you first came to the village, so I haven't officially met you yet. ”

"Hello. Zero bowed to the old white-bearded dwarf in front of him.

Taru nodded, looking at Zero who stood up straight, and he said to him in a slightly hoarse voice, "Thank you for saving my grandson, and the other children, they are all the hope of the dwarves, you have saved not only their lives, but also the future of this village." ”

Zero lowered his head and said modestly: "You are serious, Yaqi and they are all my friends, and Uncle Yantai is my savior, what I do is within my ability." And if Uncle Yantai hadn't run outside the matrix to save me at that time, I would have died, so Uncle Yantai had already saved me twice. ”

"Haha...... You're a good talker. Iwatai smiled and patted Zero's back.

Zero then smiled, and Taru smiled at Zero and asked, "I heard that you are a magician, and now you are studying enchantment with Archie at Old Man Kusse?"

"Yes," Zero replied, "I'm a ninthiac magician, I'm interested in everything related to magic, I wanted to learn from Grandpa Cusse, but he wouldn't teach him, and he suddenly agreed two days ago, and I cherish the opportunity to learn from him." ”

"That's because he's thanking you, the dwarves are a race of kindness, you have saved so many children, and now you are getting what you want, and it is also appropriate to teach you the enchantment you want to learn. Taru said.

"So that's ......" Zero was a little stunned, no wonder the old man Cusse, who was so rigid before, was suddenly willing to teach him the magic trick of not passing on outsiders.

Taru nodded and said, "The opportunity to learn is not easy to come by, since you are so interested in enchantment, and Kuse is willing to teach you, you should study hard." Okay, it's not getting early, I happened to be passing by today to see you, I have to go back and get some rest, and I have to forge those daggers tomorrow......"

Taru pinched the bridge of his nose, looking very tired, and Yan Tai looked at Taru with a worried face and asked, "You look too tired, you haven't rested much lately, right?"

"Yes......" Taru sighed, "but fortunately, everything is going well, and it is almost finished, and I really put too much effort into this pair of daggers......"

"You have to pay attention to your body. Iwatai said with concern.

"No matter how much I hurt my body, I have to finish forging it, this is my best work, and I must do my best to build it to the best. Taru said as he looked at Iwatae, a determined look in his eyes.

"Alright, you go back to the house and rest, I'll go back too......" Taru said and waved his hand before turning and leaving.

"Slow down on the road. Yan Tai looked at Taru's back and reminded.

After watching Yan Tai say goodbye to his father, Zero let out a long sigh, and Zero asked Yan Tai, "What's the matter, Uncle Yan Tai?"

"People get old......," Iwatai sighed, "My father is really a very good forger, and the daggers he forged are almost unsurpassed by no one in the village, and he has already forged three holy weapons alone. But I ...... So far, I have only cast one spirit weapon at the most......"

"It's already very powerful, Uncle Yantai, if you take a spiritual weapon-level weapon outside the forest, it will definitely attract a bunch of people to grab it. Zero comforted.

Yan Tai turned his face to look at Zero, and said with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "It can be seen that taking a saint-level weapon outside will definitely make people head bleed." ”

"That must be a river of blood~" Zero laughed.

The two of them turned around and walked back with a smile, and asked Yan Tai as they walked: "Uncle Yan Tai, since there are so many divine weapons in the dwarf clan, why don't you take these weapons and beat those goblins down?"

Yan Tai said to Zero with a solemn expression, "The admonition that we dwarven forgers have always been - we are only the forgers of weapons, not the masters of weapons. Although we believe in the god of war, we do not advocate killing, a thousand years ago we were the invaders of this land, we occupied the land where the goblins depended, so we did not have a reason to kill them all. Another reason is ......"

"What's that?" Zero asked.

"When our ancestors first came to this place to fight for land with the goblins, they lost a hallows level staff, which later fell into the hands of the goblin leader, and it was precisely because of this staff that the goblins had the capital to fight the dwarves for thousands of years. "Iwatai stood in the doorway and told Zero about the past 1,000 years ago.

"I see...... "Zero muttered, nodding, "where are all the other Hallows in the dwarves?"

"Once someone in the clan forges a high-quality weapon, it will be stored in the Tibetan Arsenal, which houses all the exquisite weapons forged by our dwarven clan for thousands of years, and is a holy place in the hearts of our forgers. Iwatai explained.

"There's still such a collection room!Can I go in and have a visit?" asked Zero, rubbing his hands together, curiously.

Yan Tai looked at Zero with an excited face and shook his head and said, "It's better not to let the rest of the village know about your idea." ”

"Ahh

"The Tibetan Treasure Cellar is a forbidden place for the dwarf clan, just like the Sealed Sword Hall, only the patriarch, the elders, and the Holy Weapon Caster can set foot in it, you and Archie can enter the Sealed Sword Hall because you are the students of the Hall Keeper Uncle Kusai, otherwise you two children will not be able to enter the Sealed Sword Hall. ”

"Oh, that's it......" Zero was a little disappointed.

"Alas......" Iwatai said with a soft sigh and shaking his head, "you must not do anything stupid to get involved in things that you can't touch, the last human who came to the dwarven village fifty years ago was driven out of the village by cutting off a hand because of bad intentions. ”

"Chopped ...... One hand ......" Zero lowered his head and looked at his palm, a little weak.

"So, do what you can do well, don't think about touching those things that you can't touch, and live a peaceful life is the most comfortable. Okay, let's go back to the house and rest. Iwatai stood on the stone steps and patted Zero on the shoulder, then turned and walked into the house.

Zero pursed his lips, bent down to pick up the footbath, and then walked into the house and closed the door.